THEME SESSIONS
Organic compounds and
effects
Pharmaceutical drugs and
environmental contamination; hydrocarbons and their derivatives;
medication and additives in aquaculture; pesticides and other chemicals
used in agricultural processes:
a) Biomarkers and toxicity criteria, novel biomarkers and the future of
toxicity assessment
b) Environmental chemistry
c) Individual, population and community level effects
d) Physiological effects of drugs in the environment
e) Mechanisms of toxicity vs. pharmacological mechanisms
f) Endocrine disruption
g) Long term effects
h) Carcinogenesis
i) Environmental chemistry
Inorganic contaminants
Metals, acid mine drainages, gases, radioactive compounds,
domestic and industrial effluents; agricultural runoff.
a) Assessment of aquatic contamination by inorganic species
b) Environmental contamination by acid mine drainage and human impact
c) Long term effects caused by radioactive compounds
d) Microcontaminants and evolution
e) Food sources and contamination
Climate change effects
on toxicity of compounds in the Ocean
Global warming; oceanic CO2 pump; oceanic acidification; biodiversity
modifications.
a) challenges to scientific community: new quest for assessment
alternatives
b) new dispersion patterns of contaminants
c) threats to fish stocks and potential effects on human health
d) aquatic contamination by atmospheric deposition of chemical species
Regional approaches
Impact of pollutants on tropical ecosystems: mangroves and coral
reefs; tools for tropical and sub-tropical ecotoxicity assessment. High
latitude and deep-sea impacts of contaminants.
a) Contamination of tropical coastal areas
b) Polar oceanic toxicology
c) Deep-sea toxicology
Closing session
– European Policy for the Oceans |
